Is that, possibly, because a lot of the people who read Viz are also Northern?

(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 25 Aug 2011, 11:28, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

It's definitely possible
and also because the stuffed up sinuses that result in the characteristic snorting laughter are a health hazard
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 25 Aug 2011, 11:30, Reply)

My friends have previously told me to go and sit at the opposite end of the bus
Because they were embarrassed by my giggling as I read the Profanisaurus.

So I guess social isolation is also a risk.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 25 Aug 2011, 11:32, Reply)

Plus the risk of getting your head smashed in
when you constantly relay jokes and quotes from it to people who already know them/ have read it/ heard them five hundred times before
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 25 Aug 2011, 11:34, Reply)

Ah, true
But that's a risk with a lot of things - see how the legacy of Monty Python was ruined by members of various computing/sci-fi/fantasy-related university societies...
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 25 Aug 2011, 11:38, Reply)

hey
i am super-hyper-morbidly obese and northern but i don't read fucking viz!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 25 Aug 2011, 11:31, Reply)

And yet I do read it, despite being terribly, terribly 'home counties.'
But then my family is from the midlands, so perhaps that's where it's leaked in from...
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 25 Aug 2011, 11:35, Reply)

blimey
you kept that well hidden.

also you did not point out that i am NOT, in fact, quite sooooo obese, despite having met me. 1/10 for YOU...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 25 Aug 2011, 11:37, Reply)

Well, I was born down South, hence the complete lack of any discernible accent

And I assumed you were joking. You and I both know you're not obese.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 25 Aug 2011, 11:39, Reply)

a brummie accent is a handicap
your parents did well to avoid it for you.

/is mollified
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 25 Aug 2011, 11:46, Reply)